27 Therefore, may my advice seem good to you my king. Separate yourself from your sins by doing what is right,(A) and from your injustices by showing mercy to the needy.(B) Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”(C)

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27 Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed.(A) It may be that then your prosperity(B) will continue.(C)

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41 But give from what is within to the poor,[a](A) and then everything is clean(B) for you.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:41 Or But donate from the heart as charity

41 But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor,(A) and everything will be clean for you.(B)

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